A regular meeting of the Interagency commission on combating legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime and financing of terrorism took place in Saint-Petersburg on September 4-5, 2008. The meeting was focused on elaboration of the strategy on implementation of recommendations made by FATF experts in their report on mutual evaluation of the Russian AML/CFT system.
Among the participants of the meeting were representatives of Rosfinmonitoring, Ministry of Interior of Russia, Federal Security Service, Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Bank of Russia, Prosecutor General’s Office and other agencies concerned, as well as Association of Russian Banks and Association of Regional Banks of Russia. At the same time consultations were held with the Council of Europe experts on international experience of AML/CFT systems improvement.
As a result of this meeting proposals are being prepared to be soon put forward before the Government of the Russian Federation.
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